Long Lost Treasures

We cannot help people who aren’t under the Covenant of Christ.

It’s not enough that one is spiritually reborn. He or she must also be fully and consciously committed to Christ as Lord over their entire existence. Every decision in life comes into question. You can take nothing for granted. The Covenant of Christ isn’t about “being saved” (as commonly defined) but about your adoption as willful servants in His divine Sheikdom. It must be consciously feudal and tribal.

Granted, there is an expected period of transition for people taking up citizenship in this Sheikdom, but it is no help if their teachers don’t know what’s really going on. A critical element in what a church does is teach folks what their minds need to know in order to surrender and serve the leading of the Holy Spirit in the heart. That includes a heavy dose of cultural reorientation to the biblical way. And the Bible is distinctively non-Western, non-democratic, etc. It is most certainly tribal, feudal and covenant oriented.

This is Biblical Law. This is the regime Christ came to establish on earth. This is His message and what He requires of those who claim His name.

The vast majority of those claiming to follow Christ have no clue. A very significant portion of their leadership is hostile to this teaching. As long as they remain outside of this regime, they cannot claim the fullness of their divine privileges as Children of Jehovah. Instead, they remain under Satan’s dominion, who consumes their shalom. They can’t live their shalom and present a clear witness of divine revelation.

Meanwhile, a great many people called by Christ have sensed something very wrong and don’t associate with churches. They have been turned off from the whole question of following Christ by the painful, if not entirely conscious, disjuncture between what most churches do and what Christ requires. Their minds are confused and they haven’t been permitted to unite the leading of their hearts with their religion.

Instead, the churches are filled with people who have no spiritual birth, but are convinced they do have it. They have been misled by church leaders who make it something it never was. Sure, we know that there will always be folks in the church organization who don’t really belong, even among the leadership, but few churches have any clear view of how to operate in Two Realms at once, so they empower a massive self-deception. They confuse the earthly church organization with the heavenly family.

In their minds, they make major categorical errors in associating spiritual attributes with a fallen entity. They ignore the distinction between the Two Realms, and the human organization becomes somehow sacred in their minds. They reject the understanding that the church in this fallen world is a mere manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven. To them, the church is the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, they have no hedge against the deceptions of Satan that turns church into a secular political entity. They can’t tell the difference between human politics and the work of the Holy Spirit.

So rare is the church that doesn’t make these mistakes that there’s no point in naming names. We can say with some confidence that we know of no genuine New Testament churches in our world. That’s not to say there are none, but that we have never encountered them. Then again, if they did exist, they would be hard to find through the normal means. They would not be able to organize and hold property legally, and would not dare to advertise their presence. They would rely on word of mouth, at most.

You won’t find such a church, but you could found one.

Don’t be blind, folks. The world as we know it is coming apart. It won’t happen all at once; this will take years, coming in fits and starts, with long lulls without much change. That’s how it works with the fallen human race. We are the seeds planted for a time of harvest somewhere down the road. I’m praying you catch the vision, that you embrace it and pray toward it. We are seeing the long, slow dawning of a new age in Christian religion, a recovery of things long lost. The Kingdom of Heaven is again at hand.

We are restoring the shalom long denied the Kingdom of Christ.